From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Jul 9 15:35:27 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mail.tgd.net (rand.tgd.net [64.81.67.117]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 0FC5037B409 for ; Mon, 9 Jul 2001 15:35:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sean@mailhost.tgd.net) Received: (qmail 24496 invoked by uid 1001); 9 Jul 2001 22:35:13 -0000 Date: Mon, 9 Jul 2001 15:35:13 -0700 From: Sean Chittenden To: Lamont Granquist Cc: Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group , Bert Driehuis , "J.Goodleaf" , stable@FreeBSD.ORG, sean@chittenden.org Subject: Re: Benchmarks from SysAdmin mag Message-ID: <20010709153513.L60568@rand.tgd.net> References: <200107080407.f6847Ex16767@cwsys.cwsent.com> <20010709150950.L2131-100000@warez.scriptkiddie.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="xtx0sNU5lZ46KfgK" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20010709150950.L2131-100000@warez.scriptkiddie.org>; from "lamont@scriptkiddie.org" on Mon, Jul 09, 2001 at = 03:12:21PM X-PGP-Key: 0x1EDDFAAD X-PGP-Fingerprint: C665 A17F 9A56 286C 5CFB 1DEA 9F4F 5CEF 1EDD FAAD X-Web-Homepage: http://sean.chittenden.org/ Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG --xtx0sNU5lZ46KfgK Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > how about having a performance tuning application? don't make it part of > the default install, so that you keep the install as easy to use for > novice users as possible. but when it comes to tuning for benchmark > testing have an application that goes through "do you want to turn on > write caching on your IDE drives?" with a little explanation of what > you're about to do... This idea has come up a few times and I'd love to see it happen! =20 =2E.. [grabs flag and starts running forward] I'm willing to head up the app framework that'd handle this and am more than eager to see it succeed. This idea has come up a few too many times and is too ripe with potential to be ignored or talked about as a "gee wouldn't it be nice if" idea and then let sit in the dust bin for another few months until it comes up again. The two camps that'll hopefully be interested are performance junkies (need technical expertise for tuning) and app developers (have to put the knowledge someplace useful that's updatable). -sc --=20 Sean Chittenden --xtx0sNU5lZ46KfgK Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Comment: Sean Chittenden iEYEARECAAYFAjtKMaEACgkQn09c7x7d+q2eyACfX1E06nQpneP3/bOAAJ68hObD TF8AnjkHFyS5i1bQS2W7/My0RjGIHUsJ =zVVV -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --xtx0sNU5lZ46KfgK-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message